Thai society is facing a major test in the way it handles the stark ideological differences on what to do with the controversial lese-majeste law. The past two weeks have seen a growing hate campaign ...
shared Ratchaprasong News's status. #Thailand RN Minister Anudit comes from Sudarat's wing of Pheuthai Party and does not understand the depth and the issue of injustice of Reds who are imprisoned by harsh lese-majeste sentences
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has spoken out to clarify details around the company's new censorship policy, claiming that the microblogging service has no choice but to introduce the measures ...
By now most of you will have read about Twitter's adoption of a country-specific approach to censorship. In case you missed it: Twitter has adopted Google's
Deal to purchase 900,000 tablet devices from China will fulfill one of ruling party's major pre-election promise but detractors say lack of content a drawback, report notes.
Thailand has become the first government to publicly endorse Twitter's controversial decision to censor messages in certain countries. Twitter announced last week it would permit country-specific censorship of content that could violate local laws, ...
Last week, Twitter ignited a censorship debate in a big way, after the company announced a new policy that effectively allows it to block certain Tweets (and, more disturbingly, certain Twitter accounts) only in particular parts of the world.
Twitter has embraced censorship, many fear -- and the world's most repressive regimes are applauding the move. The short-messaging service announced on Thursday what it called a commitment to free speech, a technology update that allows it to censor...
That triggered worried teeth-gnashing, reported everywhere from the Los Angeles Times (“Twitter's new censorship plan stirs global furor”) to ABC News (“Twitterati Protest NewTwitter Censorship Policy With Blackout”) to the New York Times (“Censoring...
Twitter's announcement that it will censor content in countries where content contravenes local laws has sparked outrage. The site's CEO has defended the newpolicy as the only way to navigate a treacherous legal minefield.
By RFE/RL Thailand's Technology Minister Anudith Nakornthap said on January 30 that Twitter 's new policy was a "constructive" development and praised the website for "cooperating with governments to make sure basic rights are not violated through the ...
AYTM Market Research suggests that new Twitter censorship policies have angered about 33 percent of its users. A report from AYTM Market Research found that a new Twitter policy, allowing it to censor content in certain countries, has been received ...
By Walter Pacheco While Twitter's move to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis drew criticism across much of the globe, Thailand and China -- countries known for censoring their citizens' dislike of government -- applauded the change in policy.
Can censorship ever be a good thing? Twitter wants you to think so, but the company appears to have stepped on a slippery slope coated in lard. Twitter recently announced a new feature by which it could and would block certain Tweets and accounts in ...
Thailand has endorsed Twitter's new censorship policy to block tweets in accordance to a particular country's laws, calling it a "welcome development". Thailand's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Ministry said it will work with Twitter to ...
BANGKOK — Thailand, which regularly cracks down on Internet content deemed critical of its revered monarchy, on Monday welcomed social media giant Twitter'scontroversial new censorship policy. The San Francisco-based networking website announced last ...
Our View: Look beyond the controversy and see that Twitter's new censorship policy is a win for free speech. On Friday, Twitter announced changes to its censorship policy, allowing country-specific restrictions of tweets.
Thailand is welcoming Twitter's new policy to censor tweets in specific nations where the content might break laws. Technology minister Anudith Nakornthap said Monday the newpolicy was a "constructive" development. The Southeast Asian country ...
On Thursday, Twitter posted a new censorship policy, stating that it will now have the ability to “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country — while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” This is a change from Twitter's...
By Hana Stewart-Smith | January 30, 2012, 2:43am PST Summary: The Thai government has officially endorsed Twitter's 'country-by-country' censorship policy, saying it is a “welcome development”. Thailand's government has officially endorsed Twitter's...
But free speech advocates, who one would expect to be the strongest critics of censorship, have actually come to the company's defense, saying Twitter's newpolicy of taking tweets down on a country-by-country basis, rather than globally, ...
Although a visceral reaction against any private assistance in state censorship is understandable, users should recognize that the new policy is more liberal than the current model. Previously, offending tweets would be globally deleted from Twitter's...
Twitter is on the verge of new censorship policies which are likely to be affected by UK super-injunctions by celebrities and politicians. The head of Twitter's global public policyColin Crowell yesterday told a Privacy and Injunctions Joint committee ...
According to the Bangkok Post, the Information and Communications Permanent Secretary, Jeerawan Boonperm said the ICT Ministry will be in talks with Twitter soon to collaborate on the site's new feature. She said that Twitter's decision to censor...
A spokeswoman for Twitter said the new technological capability did not reflect a change in the company's policy. "Our announcement is not at all about Twitter censoring tweets, or any kind of policy or philosophical change in how we feel about the ...
Twitter, it is said, has become evil. The company announced at the end of last week that it would censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. If a government really doesn't like your hundred and forty characters, Twitter may white them out.
It should certainly come as no surprise that Thailand and China would be the first governments to endorse this new policy since both nations are notorious for their strict laws and heavy censorship. Under Twitter's new policy, countries would be ...
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog) - Jan 30, 2012
It was inevitable after Twitter's announcement last week that it would censor tweets on a case-by-case, country-by-country basis: Thailand is reportedly promising to get with Twittersoon to work something out. What this looks like is that Thailand ...
Twitter insisted its commitment to free speech remains firm, and sought to explain the nuances of its policy, while critics - in a barrage of tweets - proposed a Twitter boycott and demanded that the censorship initiative be scrapped.
Bianca Jagger asked, almost existentially, “How are we going to boycott #TWITTER?” Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took the other side. “I'm defending Twitter's policy because it is the one I ...
While some see an actual improvement in Twitter's new policy as they make the process transparent in contrast to previously just deleting the offending tweeting. Of course many are fearing that this move will enable governments to curtail freedom of ...
By Lauren Dugan on January 30, 2012 10:15 AM Thailand applauded Twitter's new stance on censorship, which will give governments the right to ask the network to remove certain tweets. The new policy – decried by free speech advocate as censorship and ...
Twitter's decision to start censoring tweets at the request of repressive governments represents a regrettable retreat from the free-flowing ethos that has made it such an essential social networking site. Our preference, in 140 characters or fewer, ...
In a blog post late last week, Twitter announced plans to begin censoring users' tweets within certain countries. The censorship policy, which the company has stated is reactive only, will not filter tweets before they appear on Twitter.
This week, Thailand was the first country to high-five Twitter on their swell new policy. Can a gift-basket from Syria be far off? The fact that Twitter is willing to cut a deal with the oppressive monarchs and tyrants of the world is unsettling at ...
By Helen AS Popkin Twitter's recent announcement that it will censor specific tweets from some countries resulted in an anti-climatic "boycott" of the microblogging service on Saturday, and more importantly, a cartoon-ified interpretation by those ...
Galperin also notes that tweeters can use proxies and anonymizer networks (like Tor) to end run around the censors. I'm a little leery of Galperin's argument about the policy meaning less censorship. It's true that if Twitter uses exactly the same ...
Previously, Twitter would block tweets and accounts across the world, but the micro-blogging site said it was introducing the new policy of country-specificcensorship as it expands into states “that have different ideas about the contours of freedom ...
AP In an unsurprising move, Thailand has become the first government to support Twitter censorship. While the rest of the Twitterverse voiced its displeasure of the social media platform's announced policy change of blocking messages in countries where ...
Twitter will block Tweets in a country "In the face of a valid and applicable legal order." Some are saying the new policy is actually one of the best ways a global social media company can protect free speech. Twitter has been required to remove ...
By Prasoon Kumar, The Mobile Indian, New Delhi, January 31, 2012 The news that Twitter will begin censoring tweets now has raised some concerns as it has been a popular medium of communication when users couldn't get access to other, usual modes of ...
Twitter sent its digital street cred tumbling on Thursday night when it announced that it would being selectively censoring content as a way to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression. Though Twitter has never made promises ...
“It's very shocking and disappointing that Twitter is now caving in to a policy of adopting self-censorship in order to have a presence in a repressive society,” said Sunai Pasuk, a representative for Human Rights Watch Thailand.
Twitter's controversial plans to introduce censorship of tweets of a 'country-by-country' basis could result in Britons being barred from disseminating tweets which break future super-injunctions – according to the micro blog's head of global public ...
by Jamie Yap January 30, 2012 7:23 AM PST Thailand has endorsed Twitter's new censorship policy to block tweets in accordance to a particular country's laws, calling it a "welcome development." Thailand's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ...
ReadWriteWeb has suggested the feature might constitute an intentional workaround on Twitter's part. As I wrote on my own blog, this is censorship, but Twitter isn't above the law. When the company enters a new jurisdiction, setting up offices and ...
From Dubai to Tokyo to Washington, online activists have demanded Twitter not go forward with this policy. “It is a sign that Twitter is not going forward with users in mind, instead it wants to earn revenue and to do this they have allowed governments ...
A shop in Tahrir Square is spray-painted with the word Twitter after the government shut off Internet access on Feb. 4 in Cairo, Egypt. Twitter's announcement late last week that it can now censor tweets within specific countries may not be aimed at ...
It looks like a country is already welcoming Twitter's new censorship policy with open arms. Thailand was the first country to announce that they would be taking advantage ofTwitter's new policy to police tweets that would be offensive or break the ...
By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent Colin Crowell, Twitter's head of global public policy, said a new system to restrict access to unlawful tweets on a country-by-country basis could be triggered if British users discuss gagging orders.
Governments nervous about what their citizens say in public are getting some help from the popular social network service Twitter. One of the first tweets from Thailand after the Twitter announcement that it could censor users country-by-country.
By Dave Neal THE THAI GOVERNMENT has welcomed the news that Twitter will be happy to censor messages geographically and has said that it will work with the firm on just that. Last week Twitter announced that it will let countries request bans on ...
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Thailand has become the first nation in the world to embrace Twitter's controversial censorship scheme. Last week Twitter said it was prepared to block content on a country-by-country basis as required by each ...
The Information and Communication Technology Ministry will work with Twitter to ensure that tweets disseminated in Thailand are in compliance with local law. One of the first tweets from Thailand after the Twitter announcement that it could censor...
Ranging from “pro-Nazi” to possibly gay-centric content, the social platform said on their official blog they would allow content to be censored depending on the country's speech policies. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter ...
Twitter's recent announcement that they would begin censoring their tweets by geographic region has drawn widespread criticism from bloggers and their users alike. But now, the social media corporation has their first official support from a sovereign ...
Or not, at least, in the UAE, where reaction to Twitter's new policy of country-specific censorship of content seemed to be bemusement that there hadn't been more of a reaction. One mystified user tweeted: "Why is #TwitterCensored not trending in the ...
In a blog titled "Tweets still must flow" , Twitter last week announced that it may need to withold tweets in certain countries as it begins global expansion plans. "Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from ...
You may have thought that Twitter's new privacy policy would only be effecting oppressive regimes like Thailand, but now the UK may be using the policy to protect those who can afford it. UK law states that any high profile figure that is involved in a ...
It was interesting to see how Twitter decided to break the news of its new localised censorship policy — in the name of transparency of course — by framing it through the blighted heritage of the Nazis that will see it abiding by national laws in ...
It's not often you hear free-speech advocates praising a censorship policy—but that's what happened on Thursday, after Twitter announced a new policy of withholding content both on a tweet-by-tweet and a country-by-country basis.
Thailand has become the first country to publicly endorse Twitter's plans to censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, meaning that anybody wanting to insult the Royal Family had better get a move on. Thailand's lese majeste laws last year ...
Twitter users accuse the micro blogging site of giving in to censorship. Fast food chain McDonald's incurs the wrath of web users with its latest social media campaign. And it will soon be possible to download 3 dimensional objects…
Twitter received a storm of criticism last week when it announced that it will block tweets and user profiles in some countries if they are found to violate local laws. The new policyallows Twitter to block, for example, pro-Nazi content in France and ...
Twitter's new plans have led to a range of comments among Chinese users, all of whom are circumventing China's "Great Firewall" of Internet censorship, which blocks the site entirely. The Chinese-speaking Twitter community, that is, ...
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